“My life stops when I'm depressed because there's no getting out of it. There's no shaking it off because it's a chemical imbalance,” Portwood explained to the publication. “When I get depressed, my depression is laying in bed, not moving, not wanting to even take a shower.”

The Never Too Late author, who shares daughter Leah, 7, with ex Gary Shirley, told Cosmo that her fiancé, Matt Baier, has been a huge support during her darkest days.

“Matt's had to pull me out of bed I don't know how many times and start the shower for me because I've been so down,” she continued. “And my anxiety … I can't really go out in public a lot because of it. I don't like going to movie theaters, and it's just really hard.”

Not only does the recovered opiate addict — who completed 16 months of what was originally a five-year prison sentence at Indiana’s Rockville Correctional Facility in November 2013 for drug-related charges — suffer from depression, she recently told MTV producers on-camera that she has borderline personality disorder in addition to bipolar disorder.

“Yes, I'm actually diagnosed. The borderline personality is a new diagnosis that I obviously don't want to believe, but my therapist believes it. It's hard. I was diagnosed with bipolar a long time ago,” the 16 & Pregnant alum told Cosmo. “It's really hard. I think people don't quite understand what it's like to be bipolar and then have something like borderline personality on top of it, plus you have anxiety disorder.”

She somberly added: “I've just been screwed up since the beginning, which is a big reason why I used to self-medicate as well. I'm glad I have professional help now.”